Rawan Al-Bassam
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery and the Globe
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What does it mean to see the entire world? What are the snowy mountains for us? What are the boundless plains, the thick forests, or the deep oceans? And what is the whirr of the plane’s engine, groaning underneath us? Can one see everything, yet see nothing? Does witnessing the richness of the world mean realizing your own loneliness? The globe in its endless expanses is nothing in the eyes of the pilot; the minute villages and fields before his eyes are quickly ignored. From heights up to 30,000 feet, the pilot glides over us all, yet cannot wave his gloved hand at us. With his home in the starry sky,…
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